Jeffrey Epstein case: Prince Andrew must respond to sexual abuse trial

It is probable that prince andre you receive “sooner or later” legal documents which oblige you to respond to a lawsuit in the United States of a woman who claims to have been recruited by Jeffrey Epstein when I was a teenager, to be later “loaned ”to British royalty and other men to have sexa New York judge said on Monday.

The second son of queen isabel II received a subpoena for trial at the Royal Lodge, Windsor, on the morning of Aug. 27, according to a witness statement filed in federal court in Manhattan. The prince, also known as the Duke of York, challenged the legality of service, through a U.S. lawyer, in a hearing in federal court in Manhattan on Monday.

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U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan has not commented on the prince’s presentation, but said any success in challenging the service would likely only be temporary.

There is a “high degree of certainty that you will be served well sooner or later,” Kaplan told lawyer Andrew Brettler, who previously told the judge he was appearing on behalf of the Duke only to dispute the meaning of the procedure and court. order on your client.

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The complaint was filed last month by Virginie giuffre, who claims Prince Andrew sexually assaulted her at Epstein’s New York home, on his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and at the London home of Ghislaine Maxwell, who is in prison awaiting trial for sex trafficking. The Prince Andrew has denied having sex with Giuffre.

British royalty must receive court documents informing them of the trial for the US court to have jurisdiction over him. Kaplan, Brettler and Giuffre’s attorney, David Boies, discussed a timeline for determining whether the judge will seek help from authorities in the UK deliver the documents to Prince Andrew.

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